Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Arts on Sunday 30 September 2012 - Radio New Zealand National

12:43 Novelist and TV writer extraordinaire Neil Cross (left) talks about his Emmy-nominated series Luther, his episodes of Doctor Who,
winning the country's big crime writing award this year, and why he calls New
Zealand home.

12:48 It's taken eight years of intensive fund raising
but New Plymouth's Len Lye Centre has got the green light. The $10 million
dollar plus project still has its critics, but its supporters say it'll be a
bonus for the city culturally and financially.

1:10 At The Movies: The cinema's silly season, full of a
bunch of films that aim for a low profile.

1:31 Christchurch photographer Guy Frederick, who's
worked with locals on an exhibition looking at the long term psychological
effects of the quake. The Space Between Words is on at Christchurch's Central
Library Tuam from 3-23 October.

1:41 What's the difference between a zine and a magazine?
In the case of artist Kerry Ann Lee's Permanent Vacation it's hard to tell
because its professionally printed, and looks more like an art publication.
Sonia Sly finds out about what makes a good zine, how the formats are endless
and how obsessions and questions can lead down a zine-making path. Wellington
zine creator Hannah Salmon talks interchangeable demonic faces and creative
activism with her award-winning zine Daily Secretions, and Auckland based Sam
Orchard shares his transgender 101 experience with Boy in a Big City.

Gallery: Permanent Vacation, Daily Secretions, Boy in a
Big City

1:53 One of our early contemporary dancers, now also an
in demand choreographer, Lyne Pringle, who talks about her current
environmental trilogy and why she's hanging out with trees in Auckland for the
next few months.

2:05 The Laugh Track: Actor-comedian David Fane, who's
starring in a play he co-wrote 16 years ago and which the Auckland Theatre
Company has brought back - A Frigate Bird Sings.

2:26 Australian director Wayne Blair makes a flying visit
after seeing The Sapphires make its debut at the Cannes Film Festival.

2:35 You'd think his story had been told a million times
over, but Nicholas Roe offers some fresh insights into John Keats in a new
biography, published by Yale University Press. Nicholas' Keats is more robust
and earthy than the pale fragile young man the Victorian's portrayed.

2:45 Kiwi writer Sarah Jane Barnett, whose poems include
the last words of executed murders in her debut collection, A Man Runs Into A
Woman. It's also the debut book by Hue & Cry publishers.